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Michelle

What do you hope to do upon release?

“I hope to gain stable employment and have the ability to enroll in the welding class at Olympic College. It is my goal to be self supporting and to be able to help my children and my grandchildren. I have a strong desire to give back to my community through volunteer work. I will be a success story and I will use my past experiences to help others.”

These photographs represent inmates from two corrections facilities in Washington State.  In these photographs the subjects were offered the opportunity to select civilian clothing.  Many of the volunteers in this series wrote a paragraph or two about their intentions upon release.  Church, family and remaining drug-free were the overarching themes found in almost all of their goals. Each were given prints to keep or give to family, or for use in search of a job. The donated clothes are put to good use, given to the soon to be homeless and needier inmates upon their release. #prison #women #portrait #incarceration #Washington #Corrections

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